{"id":4841,"date":"2008-11-12T13:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2008-11-12T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T12:55:39","slug":"the-promise-of-change-and-the-change-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/the-promise-of-change-and-the-change-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"The Promise of Change&#8230; and the Change We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001c1sD44bIELpPSx7Hs8BSs2umg0Jq8UWhYgKny9TmutyWZFT2ReJ57NFc-HOlbBGxhfy7lJ955Ito3_H37TxJarnFLtV6k6HY222F8IMTE8btIzsDLlBnDKAhw2q1nFRb\">Revolution Newspaper<\/a> | <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">You couldn&#8217;t miss it on Election Night. People actually pouring into the streets to celebrate the election of a president. Emotions ran high, and tears flowed.<em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-style: normal;\">Hope-hope that is founded on the real possibilities for fundamental change in this world-is indeed precious. Dedicating your life to something higher than the ethic of &#8220;I-want-mine&#8221; is so vital that the future of humanity actually depends on it. And overcoming- truly overcoming-the divisions of society based on inequality and oppression must be at the heart of any real movement for social change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">But now, in the dawn of the morning after, one must ask and honestly grapple with some basic and very serious questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Hope for what?<br \/>\nService to what?<br \/>\nUnity around what goals and what values?<br \/>\nAnd victory for whom?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: x-small; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a onclick=\"onClickUnsafeLink(event);\" href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001c1sD44bIELotbRK9CZy4MaTgtl40o4QakX7ZdC6zBEFe6jsW63Guaozxb6FhBElKTYZeeGbl72oZTNZwLCjIuGaen6m4sp8fE_kDaIZHVJ491FSHxe_5759DA3efcVVj2BQqnLavwXyBqtMpRZX9jPacGhUSGHrl\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0068cf;\">Click here for print version (PDF).<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"onClickUnsafeLink(event);\" href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001c1sD44bIELp-mrOnEgwaTMESm9_UdoWDTSd4T4n3FezkSFebZXjApl3ekS5B0HHtEhjpGouugRE29Qg-EBGB-hBulqj5AFdKeC7mUNYpJfl6FeHeztLfjhgN1O9cOqgVqCc5BXiAIoiOYI_SmwJuqQ==\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0068cf;\">Click here for YouTube Video Part One.<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"onClickUnsafeLink(event);\" href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?e=001c1sD44bIELoVe8k-luJLYEqKJxBTvxc1VvCL1Y4GimG9hwt-9gpY_iBlroCZLXhOEA_Ca4c3Iqgr0NSIlitF1W7WcZZkGygOJCYyg0k4a4rBSDuqTezhsVNFzYzbVbhZhpg96G7ryuLmPjdR1MTqPw==\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0068cf;\">Click here for YouTube Video Part Two<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution Newspaper | You couldn&#8217;t miss it on Election Night. People actually pouring into the streets to celebrate the election of a president. Emotions ran high, and tears flowed. Hope-hope that is founded on the real possibilities for fundamental change in this world-is indeed precious. Dedicating your life to something higher than the ethic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-4841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}